Capterra Glossary
Web Hosting
Web hosting is a service in which a vendor provides the technologies and services necessary for a website to be viewed on the internet. The web-hosting business stores the website content on a computer server. The amount of space a website has allocated on a server depends on the type of web hosting. The main types of web hosting are shared, dedicated, virtual private server (VPS), and reseller. These use different kinds of technology for the server, as well as provide different levels of management and additional services.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Web Hosting
All websites require web hosting to be viewable. Since all modern businesses are recommended to have a web presence; the majority of SMBs require web hosting.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy